Peter RileyMar 19

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/19/blocking-fertilisers-the-hormuz-strait-and-agricultural-shock/

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Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait and Agricultural Shock

The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the usual

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To see who will really pay the price however, look not to the developed world or big emerging markets like #India, but to the weakest links in the chain - the poor, agrarian, smallholder economies of Africa.
Look at the impact on #fertiliser usage in #Coted’Ivoire, #Kenya, #Nigeria and #SouthAfrica, during the last great gas-price crisis at the start of the Ukraine war.

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-436-unseasonal-war-how

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Chartbook 436 Unseasonal war. How the US-Israeli war on Iran threatens the global agricultural cycle.

One impact of the war being waged by the US and Israel against Iran that is not getting as much attention as it deserves, is the impact on the global supply of fertilizer.

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